Deputies: Drunken man clocked at 127 mph on Overseas Highway -- with 3 small kids in the car

Photo: Monroe County Jail

Barbara HijekFloriDUH

A deputy at the 7-mile marker of the Overseas Highway at 11 p.m. on Saturday night saw a maroon Mitsubishi whiz by him at 87-mph in a 55-mph zone. As the deputy called for lawmen stationed south of him to be on the lookout for the speeding car, he used his radar to continue monitoring the car as it continued speeding -- eventually reaching a speed of 127-mph, according to a news release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

When another deputy stopped the car about two miles down the road on Stock Island, and asked the driver, Robert Rioseco, to step out, she noticed the three small children in the car, according to the release.

Officers noted the 46-year-old Homestead man smelled of booze and his behavior was extremely erratic, fluctuating from calm to agitated -- and at one point he acted as if he were going to attack a deputy, deputies said.

At the jail, deputies said he appeared to have trouble walking and loudly refused to perform any sobriety exercises while swearing at a deputy and corrections officers.

Rioseco was charged with reckless driving, three counts of driving under the influence with someone under the age of 18 in the car, refusing to submit to a DUI test and three counts of cruelty toward a child.

The kids were turned over to their mother.

This is Rioseco's 9th booking into the Monroe County Jail, inmate records show.